Arbor (b. Derrek Chow) is an artist and researcher creating immersive light experiences and novel input devices. Using design and technology as tools of inquiry, he creates experiential works in various forms such as artifact, installation, and performance.

Arbor received a degree in software engineering from the University of Waterloo where he studied in the Expressive Input & Interaction Group (exii). He was a designer at RNDR and Human-Computer Interaction researcher at the ACME Lab in the ATLAS Institute and the NTU HCI Lab in National Taiwan University.

Arbor has taught at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA), and the University of Colorado Boulder. Selected venues include The Lab (San Francisco), the B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance (Boulder), Gray Area (San Francisco), CURRENTS (Santa Fe), and the Salone del Mobile Milano (Milan).

Publication